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Bessemer Process
steel making process -
Discovery of Gold in Pikes Peak
found gold in pikes peak -
Morrill Land grant act
granted each state 30000 acres of land -
Homestead Act
allows a maximum exemption amount of $2,500 of one's equity, with a maximum of one acre (1/4 acre minimum) for urban properties and 160 acres if rural. -
Transcontinental r/r completed
completed the trans continental railroad -
Jacob Riis published his book of photos
A pioneer in the use of photography as an agent of social reform, Jacob Riis immigrated to the United States in 1870. -
Statue of Liberty built
the statue of liberty was build -
Battle of little bighorn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand -
Fredrick Jackson Turner writes essay of settling the west
he made an essay about settling west -
Farmers alliance created
The Farmers' Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished ca. -
Thomas edison invents light bulb
he made the light bulb -
Carlisle school established
The United States Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, generally known as Carlisle Indian Industrial School, was the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from 1879 through 1918. -
Chinese exclusion act
It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. -
Edison lights up NYC
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American federation of labor founded
The American Federation of Labor (A.F. of L.) was a national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL–CIO. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 1886 by an alliance of craft unions eager to provide mutual support and disappointed in the Knights of Labor. -
Dawes act
The Dawes Act of 1887 regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States. -
Interstate commerce act passed
both the Senate and House passed the Interstate Commerce Act, which applied the Constitution's “Commerce Clause”—granting Congress the power “to Regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States -
Alfred T Mahan writes his book on sea power
In 1890, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, a lecturer in naval history and the president of the United States Naval War College, published The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783, a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British Empire. -
Sherman ant-trust act passed
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. -
Wounded knee massacre
The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army. -
Pullman strike
The Pullman Strike was two interrelated strikes in 1894 that shaped national labor policy in the United States during a period of deep economic depression -
Plessy v Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal". -
Holden v hardy
Holden v. Hardy, 169 U.S. 366, is a US labor law case in which the US Supreme Court held a limitation on working time for miners and smelters as constitutional. -
Spanish American War begins
The Spanish–American War began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence -
Hawaii is annexed
the Hawaiian Islands were annexed by this joint resolution. -
Phillipines islands are annexed
the United States paid Spain $20 million to annex the entire Philippine archipelago. -
Newlands Reclamation act
The Reclamation Act of 1902 is a United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West. -
Hepner act
A suit brought by the United States to recover the penalty prescribed by 4 and 5 of the Alien Immigration Act of March 3, 1903 -
U-boats created
The boats Nordenfelt I and Nordenfelt II, built to a Nordenfelt design. -
Panama Canal is built
The Panama Canal is an artificial 82 km waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean and divides North and South America. -
Lochner v New York
Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court holding that a New York State statute that prescribed maximum working hours for bakers violated the bakers' right to freedom of contract under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
Sinclair’s the Jungle written
The Jungle is a fictional novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government -
Pure Food and drug act passed
prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce -
Muller V Oregon
Muller v. Oregon, 208 U.S. 412, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court. Women were provided by state mandate lesser work-hours than allotted to men. -
Founding of the NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, -
17th adm
allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators. -
Federal Reserve act
created the Federal Reserve System, known simply as "The Fed." -
Ford Motor company's first full assembly line starts
The Ford Motor Company team decided to try to implement the moving assembly line in the automobile manufacturing process. -
Clayton Antitrust act
the act of selling the same product to different buyers and charging different prices based on who is purchasing the goods. -
Lusitania Sunk
The RMS Lusitania was a British-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War -
Beginning of the first world war
World War I, often abbreviated as WWI or WW1, was a major global conflict that lasted from 1914 to 1918. It was fought between two coalitions, the Allies and the Central Powers. Fighting took place throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia. -
US enters WWI
the usa entered the cold war -
Selective Service act
Authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription. -
WWI ends
the cold war ends -
18th adm
The movement to prohibit alcohol -
19 adm
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. -
Immigration quota act
The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. -
National origins act
The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson–Reed Act, including the Asian Exclusion Act and National Origins Act, was a federal law that prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe. -
Scopes trial
The Scopes “monkey trial” was the moniker journalist H. L. Mencken applied to the 1925 prosecution of a criminal action brought by the state of Tennessee against high school teacher John T. Scopes for violating the state's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools.